O.J. Simpson: A Holiday Timeline

It doesn't exactly seem like yesterday afternoon, but pretty close to it, that I stood in an LAX cocktail lounge that erupted in cheers when jurors in O.J.Simpson's murder trial announced

they'd found him not guilty of killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. That was October, 1995. This morning the Juice got squeezed for at least nine years by Vegas Judge Jackie Glass and a quick look at today's date, December 5, shows how often Simpson has managed to remain in the news during the holiday season, even if only as a reference or subconscious public memory.

1995: Following his acquittal, CNN's Greta Van Susteren boasts she's clinched the first TV interview with Simpson. "He wants to have an interview that has a level of credibility," Van Susteren was quoted then. "I was adamant about no ground rules, and so was he."

1996: Plaintiff lawyers begin resting their case in the wrongful-death civil suit that Simpson will lose.

1997: NBC announces its appeal of a $2.5 million jury award to an Agoura Hills production company over a dispute involving O.J. Simpson, The Interview.

2005: Simpson named country's biggest liar in survey commissioned by Write Stuff Enterprises to promote book All Men Are Liars.

2006: Outrage continues to fill media over Simpson's If I Did It book and interview deals, even after they've been terminated.

2007: The Project for Excellence in Journalism reports that Simpson ranked among the top personalities in its "leading newsmakers," along with George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton, between July and September.